vaccine mandate for most health care workers to stand. that counts is the administration can seem to find its way out of covid testing fiasco. joe biden announcing that he is ordering 500 million more covid tests all americans are still waiting for the first batch he promised to arrive. this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. i mean by this right now, the most vaccinated, and unvaccinated people are testing positive. as i ve said in the last two years, please wear a mask. his party are patriotic duty, it s not comfortable, next week we will announce how we are making high-quality mask available to american people for free. we have to work together. not against each other. we are americans. we can do this. dana: meanwhile vice president is being criticized for not inspiring too much confidence over an interview about the pandemic where she gave this was being called a word salad response. at what point does the administration say you know what, this strategy doesn t work
good evening, bret. presidentbiden is readying a stt the white house has refrained from using in the past just in case it becomes necessary. a financial sanction that russia considers economic warfare. u.s. officials are reportedly zeroing in on sanctions against vladimir putin s inner circle and on russian energy producers and banks to deter russian troops invading ukraine. considered back in 2014 but didn t ultimately make. cutting off russia from international payment. i m sure they are looking at sanctioning the banking system. sanctioning the energy sector. possibly cutting off russia from the swift system which enables them to financial transactions. at the time prime minister dmitry medvedev said cutting off would be tantamount to declaration of war. passed a nonbinding if russia invaded ukraine. the white house so far has not taken a position on it but issued stern warnings. we consulted with our allies and have a path forward impose significant and severe h
further than democrat policies to see what s causing it. you are watching fox & friends first on this monday morning. i m carley shimkus. i m benjamin hall in for todd piro. carley: good monday morning. we begin with chaos in the white house as an end of the year exodus rocks the vice president s office. carley: comes amid a new report claiming the vice president bullies her staff. david spunt joins us live from washington with more on this front. good morning, david. reporter: good morning to you. several high profile exits from the vp s office including her communications director and press secretary, we ve learned more are even possible. right now we know symone sanders is leaving. also the press operations director and vincent evans, the deputy director of public engagement and intergovernmental affairs also will be leaving soon. the washington post out with a headline, a kamala harris staff exodus reignites questions about her leadership style and future ambition
future ambition. an anonymous former harris staff member tells the post it s clear that you re not working with somebody who was willing to do the prep and the work. with cay kamala you have to put up with a constant amount of soul destroying criticism and her lack of confidence so you re constantly sort of propping up a bully and it s not really clear why. here are the people leaving her office, symone sanders, the chief spokesperson, the communications director, the hill reporting peter vels, the press operations director and vince evans, deputy director of public engagement and intergovernmental affairs. harris herself along with white house officials including press secretary jen psaki playing down any issues, any conflicts, citing just simple staff turnover. listen. so you don t feel misused or under-used? no, i don t. i am very, very excited about the work that we have accomplished. i know the vice president is grateful to all of the staff who have served her. she
dana: this is america s newsroom. you were in california for the reagan defense forum. bill: a great event, great weekend and great to see a lot of people we haven t seen in some kind. dana: all the issues you ve covered we ll have on jack keane on later today. michigan the couple s failure to appear in court friday set off an intense manhunt and police found the parents early saturday hiding in a detroit warehouse. bill: the pair is now being held in the same jail as we mentioned as their son, ethan. investigators say they may have had help evading arrest in michigan. everybody pitched in. we were confident to find them. we did. we believe they were assisted in that location to get there, to get in. and we are gathering that information and we re going to have the totality of that done fairly soon and present that to our prosecutor for potential charges for either aiding and abetting or obstruction of justice. bill: team fox coverage. andy mccarthy legal analys